Soar Jeffrey, Seo Youngjoon
Collaboration for Ageing and Aged-care Informatics Research (CAAIR), University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2007 Oct;1114:154-61. doi: 10.1196/annals.1396.040.
One of the challenges facing health and welfare policymakers as well as researchers in most developed countries is the increasing demand for aging services and aged care. Low birth rates and rapid increases in the percentages of elderly people make aging and aged care one of the top-priority issues among the national agenda of many countries. The responses of governments have included initiatives to extend productive working lives and promote self-funded retirement; to promote healthy, active aging; and to encourage more care to be delivered in home and community settings. Technology will be a major enabler of these strategies. People requiring health services are increasingly being offered more care in their own homes and community settings as an alternative to hospital admission and to delay or avoid moving into institutional care. Research is providing intelligent technology to enable care in the home as well as to monitor safety, security, and quality. Innovation will provide greater independence and better access to care in their own homes for the elderly, sufferers of chronic illness, and persons with disability and reduce the incidence of hospital admissions and the length of stay when admissions do occur. Technologies will support families and professional caregivers and are expected to reduce costs. This paper reports on developments in technology to support care for the aged in home and community settings.
在大多数发达国家，卫生与福利政策制定者以及研究人员面临的挑战之一是对老龄服务和老年护理的需求不断增加。低出生率和老年人比例的迅速上升使老龄化和老年护理成为许多国家国家议程中的首要问题之一。政府的应对措施包括延长生产性工作寿命和促进自筹资金退休的举措；促进健康、积极的老龄化；以及鼓励在家庭和社区环境中提供更多护理。技术将成为这些战略的主要推动因素。越来越多需要医疗服务的人在自己家中和社区环境中得到更多护理，以此作为住院的替代方案，并延缓或避免进入机构护理。研究正在提供智能技术，以便在家中提供护理并监测安全、安保和质量。创新将为老年人、慢性病患者和残疾人提供更大的独立性，并使他们能更好地在家中获得护理，减少住院率，并在确实住院时缩短住院时间。技术将支持家庭和专业护理人员，并有望降低成本。本文报告了支持家庭和社区环境中老年人护理的技术发展情况。
